Measuring Trade Facilitation Performance: Rationale, ESCAP Tools & Way Forward Central Asia Breakout Session, APTFF 2011 Yann Duval, Trade Facilitation Section Trade and Investment Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
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Measuring Trade Facilitation Performance:Rationale, ESCAP Tools & Way Forward
Central Asia Breakout Session, APTFF 2011
Yann Duval, Trade Facilitation Section
Trade and Investment Division,
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum 2011 & Side Events: 3 - 8 October, Seoul
Overview
• Introduction
• ESCAP Trade Facilitation Framework
• ESCAP’s Regional Trade Cost Database– Some findings from data analysis
• ESCAP’s Business Process Analysis Initiatives– Selected findings
• Conclusions & Recommendations
Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum 2011 & Side Events: 3 - 8 October, Seoul
Introduction
• Measuring progress is crucial– Identifying trade facilitation measures that work – and those that don’t
– Ensuring that the changing needs of stakeholders are understood
– Securing needed financial and/or political support to make further improvements
and implement additional/new measures
• Various tools already exist
– TF (need) assessment frameworks• List of TF measures & information about their implementation status: APEC TFAP;
WCO or WTO TF assessment check list; ESCAP TF Framework
*Preliminary and adjusted to allow for comparisons. See individual studies at www.artnetontrade.org for details.
Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum 2011 & Side Events: 3 - 8 October, Seoul
Selected findings from BPA for TF studies
• Document preparation takes most time, followed by transport/handling issues
• Some procedures/regulations driven by industry associations to prevent entry by new/small players
• Procedures between private parties are a big part of the overalltrade process
• Importance of port logistics confirmed
• Large variations in time and cost across products (or product usage), transport routes, destination, firm size,…– Data collected needs to be carefully validated (e.g., through multi-stakeholder
meetings)
Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum 2011 & Side Events: 3 - 8 October, Seoul
Conclusions and Recommendations (1)
• ESCAP trade cost database provide unique BILATERAL cost information
• �Countries to learn how to measure bilateral trade costs based on their national data
• �Countries to learn how to interpret available (cross-country) indicators and their limitations
• � Regular standardized BPA studies of trade procedures should be considered at the national/regional level– Complementary to WCO Time Release Study method
– Complementary to time/cost-distance model & ADB Corridor performance measurement initiative
– Best approach would be Joint cross-border Trade/Transit Process Analyses
Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum 2011 & Side Events: 3 - 8 October, Seoul
Conclusions and Recommendations (2)
• Adoption of common TF (need/implementation) Assessment Framework can be useful to foster collaboration and understanding
• � Agree on a common Trade Facilitation Assessment Framework
• Adopt a simple existing framework to limit development and implementation costs
• Build on / Integrate existing data collection and performance monitoring initiatives by ADB under CAREC
• � If Single Window of special interest, agree on a
common implementation assessment framework– ESCAP/ECE and UNNExT are developing such framework
– ASEAN also working on this
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Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum 2011 & Side Events: 3 - 8 October, Seoul